How did China come to be divided into China and Taiwan? What was, and currently is, the state of relations between these two countries?
What will be an ideal response?
At the end of the 1800s, as the dynastic system weakened, China fell under the control of the United Kingdom. In the early 1900s, control by the UK diminished because of the effects of WWI and WWII on Europe, including the UK. Eager to push out these outsiders, two separate visions of autonomy and self-determination developed. Communists, led by Mao Zedong, battled nationalists who were led by Chiang Kai Shek. This provided an opportunity for Japan to expand into China preceding and during WWII. At the end of WWII, the battle for China
began again. In the end, Mao's communists won, forcing the nationalists to the island of Taiwan. Today, the countries are functionally separate, but China still maintains that Taiwan is part of the same country. China remains a communist dictatorship, although it is slowly opening up. Taiwan is a capitalist democracy.
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